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Former Brocade CEO: Hello, BofA? Yes, I’d Like to Stop Payment on a $15 Million Check.

John Paczkowski in News on August 19, 2009 at 7:18 am PT

Another first for former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Greg Reyes. He was the first Silicon Valley CEO to be indicted on federal charges in the options backdating scandal of a few years ago and the first to be found guilty. And on Tuesday, he became the first to have his conviction overturned.

A Life Sentence for “Craigslist Killer”

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 2, 2009 at 5:19 pm PT

A 20-year-old Minnesota man who killed a woman he lured to his home with a fake Craigslist ad was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole yesterday. According to news reports, in October 2007, the victim, Katherine Olson, 24 years old, responded to a help-wanted ad for a babysitter. She arrived to find Michael Anderson, who shot her in the back as she tried to leave. She was found in the trunk of her own car. The prosecutor said that Mr. Anderson called himself “the Craigslist murderer” in conversations with other inmates.